Lmao same. You overthink it so much. Just recently I had a prescription for Vicodin and my parents kept warning me to be care (for addiction reasons) so I was so stressed to take it in the right incriments that I would do this.

Same with me and ADHD medicine. Couple it with short-term memory loss and it leads to issues. Fun Fact: attempting to consistently fill a prescription for methylphenidate (a controlled substance) before it's due puts you on an FBI watchlist.

DEA if anything, but that's rather doubtful. Your pharmacy will just crack down on when you can fill it and, depending on how often you call in early for a refill and how many days early you're calling, call your physician and let them know that something may be up.

Good to respect that shit. Over 15 years ago I got an injury playing sports, was prescribed Vicodin and proceeded down a very dark hole after that, eventually got turned to injecting heroin. I've been clean and sober for 5+ years off the stuff, but it's been a tough journey.

IMO the problem is that you take the pills so routinely that you can't remember if your memory of taking a pill is from today or yesterday or all the times before. There's nothing to distinguish one memory of taking a pill from another, so they all blur together.

Holy shit I could really use this. I take diclofenac every 6-24 hours for an autoimmune disorder and if I forget when I last dosed I have to choose between autoimmune pain and possibly giving myself GI bleeding from too much diclofenac. This is a real invention right here.

I can also see the use for people who have to take meds 1x per day, and get to the afternoon wondering "did I take the pill this morning or not" or exhausted parents who are tag teaming giving medication to sick kids--no question when the kid last had their antibiotics or whatever.

Nope, just keeps going to 99 hours. I got these for my dad a couple years ago. He's currently on 8 different medications taken at varying times of day. His sleep pattern is inconsistent, so it's hard to say what "bedtime" or "morning" is with him. But after a glance at the top of these I know when to give him his next dosage.

Just a lid that can be placed on regular sized pill bottles (probably has larger ones though). They sent one to the pharmacy I work at and its pretty cool, still works displays time after a few months of not touching it. Does max out at 99 hours though.

You can buy the lids individually for different sizes online or at some pharmacies. Looking online, they seem to be way over priced. The past two pharmacies I filled my dad's scripts with offered these caps for free every second refill, or $1/bottle otherwise.

The problem with alarms is that they increase complexity and we wanted to keep things simple and easy. They can also create liability and increase the likelihood of making errors if they are incorrectly programmed or put on medication taken on a different interval. The label has always told you how often to take your medication, now the Rx TimerCap tells you how long it has been.

My friends grandmother has one similar to this. She has dementia and it only unlocks when the time hits 0:00. It then beeps an alarm telling her to go take it. Then the counter starts over and locks the pills up again.

I got switched to one called Streterra, which apparently works completely differently than Adderall. It was really strange as it built up in my system, because you have to ramp it up over a few weeks to target dose. Each day, it was like living in a dream where everything was just sharper and clearer. The getting your first pair of glasses.

Biggest downside is that you can't just forget a dosage because you will go into withdrawal for a while and it's not a good time from what I understand (I've never missed a dose in the year plus I've been on it)

This still occasionally happens to me. I have been on Adderall for now what has it been 15 years. I've been taking 60 mg daily for at least ten (regardless of if it was a school day or the weekend, school year or school break for summer, work or the day off) and it still gets me occasionally whether or not if I took my daily dose.

It becomes so routine, that it becomes like breathing. But at the same time, that routine occasionally gets you. Because I'll go to my medicine cabinet and usually take it with water. But occasionally I'll remember that I'll take it later because I don't have the glass to drink water with it. Well if you have severe ADHD like me, you'll totally forget about having that mini conversation I had with myself and it will evolve into this idea of me not knowing if i took the Adderall or not. The memory evolves into uncertainty. So at worst I just always take 120 mg of Adderall.

I've looked into them before. They're expensive and the battery is not replaceable so when it dies you gotta front the full amount again. I'll just stick to leaving the bottle upside down after I've taken it at night and right side up when I've taken it in the morning. Or even better, stick to those pill planning containers.

There was recently a piece on the radio about all sorts of techniques to get people to take their medicine regularly (it's a huge problem). They gave people pill bottles like these, and then later had a system where you'd get a phone call alert to remind you. IIRC the conclusion was that neither method helped with patient compliance at all.

Patient compliance is different from what I think the person you were responding to meant. The problem that he was getting at, I think, is where taking medication regularly is totally a routine part of your day. But because people often do routine things unthinkingly, there can be confusion about whether you've actually taken the required medicine or not.

For instance, I wake up and go into the bathroom to shower, brush my teeth, do my hair, put in my contacts, etc. At some point during that process, I take ADD meds. Some days, its "meds, contacts, shower, brush teeth, do hair" and other days its "shower, contacts, meds, do hair, brush teeth," etc. So because its a routine to do all that, but the placement of some parts of the routine are variable, I have many "oh shit" moments where I'm in the shower going "I have no clue whether I took my meds before getting in the shower or not.." Because it takes a while for my body to let me know that I've taken those meds, whereas the taste in my mouth, the state of my vision, and the sexiness of my hair give me a quick way to verify other aspects of the routine.

For that purpose, where a routine compliance has already been established, but there are moments where one is confused about whether you've taken the meds or not, a cap like this could be a godsend.

Good explanation. While they seem similar on the surface, "Do you forget to take your medication?" and "Do you forget if you've taken your medication?" are two very different questions where adherence is concerned.

Alzheimer's is pretty horrible. My grandfather suffered from Alzheimer's and my dad is starting to shown signs of it. It scares me that I'll most likely head down the same path. But what scares me the most is that I will probably get Alzheimer's. My grandfather suffered from it and my dad is starting to show signs.

It is a horrible disease. My grandma had dementia with it too. She just passed away a month ago. Even knowing that she was dealing with that and in a much better place, I was surprised how hard I took it. It scares the shit out of me to think about my other grandparents passing.

My grandfather had dementia when he was passing and I think the worst thing was that he was in the pacific during WWII and he never talked about it before he was sick (except that he saw so many people starving they had to eat their pet dogs) and he had what I only can attribute to be flashbacks to the war. Like he tried to get out of bed one night and just kept telling me they were eating dogs over there and he couldn't watch. Then another night he called me over to his bed and asked me if I was safe because he saw a little girl get raped and he wanted me to stay with him to stay safe. There were a few other things too, but I started to put it together that these were probably flashbacks to what he saw in the war.

It's so horrible. I was obviously sad beyond belief when my grandma passed, but I'm so grateful it was quick and it didn't get to the point where she had dementia. She was on the other side of the war, she survived the Holocaust. She was the only one in her family who lived. After seeing my grandpa, I was just thankful she didn't go through something similar.

It's awful. My great-aunt had Alzheimer's and lived with us in our home from when I was 15 to 20. It was so hard to watch. She basically raised me (along with my grandma, who passed on Friday, so I guess now I'm technically an orphan or something?). No matter how much time you have to prepare, it's never quite enough.

She was excellent. She was born in 1924 so she had lots of interesting stories about the Great Depression and WW2. She was the first in our city to get her GED, worked at a couple of factories during WW2, and ended up managing a uniform company before she quit working to have kids. She taught me to read by the time I was three and I went into kindergarten already knowing the alphabet and how to write my name (and some basic words). When my mom went to prison when I was eight, she continued to raise me with the help of her sister and one aunt.

Just a remarkable woman. She'd been having some gnarly health problems for the last few years and had been in and out of the hospital tons, but she was cheerful right up to the end. Honestly, I'm surprised she hung in there as long as she did. She'd had multiple hip/femur fractures (first broke her hip when I was about five) and ended up losing her left leg last year due to a crazy infection that started in her toe and got out of control when she was in a nursing home after the last fracture. She had Parkinson's and was basically nonverbal for the last two years, but she was still sharp as a tack in there.

My fiance and I went to see them at Christmas and had just gotten engaged a month earlier...I remember how happy she was. I'd just gotten accepted to Hopkins for my master's and we brought her a school scarf. My mom took a ton of pictures while we were there and I'm really glad I have them.

I got the call at about one in the afternoon on Friday (apparently, she passed at five in the morning but I missed, like, eleven calls because I was dead asleep). It's just kind of a weird time for me right now.

This turned into a novel, but I really appreciate you asking. I think it feels so strange because I'm so far away--grew up in the Midwest but I've been in MD since summer 2016. I guess I'm kind of glad; seeing everybody all fucked up and upset would make things even more awful. My mother's been calling me once a day to check in, which really helps.

Ya know. Your grandmother sounds like a wonderful woman who obviously knew what she was doing. I'm sure you were a large part of her happiness and it sounds to me like you were something to be proud of all the way up to her passing. I bet she took great pride in that and it must have been comforting towards the end of her life. I hope you can get back into the swing of things, and be the living evidence of your grandmothers legacy. You are probably one of her favorite acomplishments. :)

That and trying to keep track of prescribed opioids. I had a relatively minor but very painful surgery, and had to track my roxocet doses. I had help for the first 2 or 3 days, did well for one or two, and then it fell apart. I started to sleep through alarms set so I wouldn't sleep through a dose, and wake up almost in tears from pain. I made a chart to help track how much and how often I took them, but it quickly became incoherent.

I used to just check my pulse. If it's under 80 I didn't take the adderall. Now I turn my bottle upside down when I take it. Then when I take my other pill at night I turn it back around. So I can tell which pill I took last.

Oh god this is me. Every day it's like "did I take my meds today? I definitely have a memory of taking a pill, but was that the memory from taking the pill yesterday? Or last week? Or have I taken it twice today ...?"

My wife had the ingenious idea of writing odd on one side and even on the other after taking a pill she'd flip it. Depending on the date she'd know if she took it or not. (if cap showed even on an odd day)

I forget all the time...I am only 27. 😔 I will have the bottle open in front of me, lose my train of thought, come back to it and be unable to remember if I took it or not. It's a pain in the ass, particularly because they make me so sleep. Ugh! But, without them, I'll be in bad shape. I don't take any narcotics but the meds I take are still nothing you want to double up on accidentally.

I did get a little storage container that has a three-number combo that you can set and reset. It was only around $12. Combined with daily record keeping, you should be able to tell if people are stealing you medication.

I'm on antidepressants and they're two 100mg tablets. I'm supposed to take them once a day. It took 8 months for me to get to the maximum dosage as shooting straight up would cause severe issues. If I miss a day or two, I'll get extremely ill.

If I doubled the amount I take to 400mg a day, I'd probably be in the hospital or dead.

i doubt it. you'd need a truly massive dose of sertraline to get serotonin syndrome much less die, unless you combine with other drugs. there's pretty much zero chance a 400 mg dose would even make a noticeable difference much less hospitalize you. the reason you ramped up slowly is because the drugs are hard to dose and it takes a long time to know well a dose will work, not because they were going to kill you

the sudden cessation of SSRI's is unpleasant, but again it is not lethal

It's easy to make one. Buy a cheap LCD clock. And, wire a momentary lever switch in line with the battery. (Stick the stripped ends of two thin wires to opposite sides of a thin piece of plastic and insert this "sandwich" between the battery and the battery connector.) Mount the switch so that it is pressed when the lid is on. Wire the switch so that it is closed when the lever is pressed. Mount the clock to the outside of the bin. Viola! The clock resets to 12:00 whenever the bin lid is opened. And, it counts the hours since you last fed the dogs.

If you don't mind me asking, what did it for you? Amphetamines, benzos, or PK? I got over my addiction, and it was the best decision I've ever made. Not for the people around me, but for me. PM me anytime brotha.

Unfortunately, knowing when the bottle was opened last still wouldn't prove it was your roommate or prevent it from being looted of its contents. It would only tell you when it happened. Any addict would vehemently deny that it was them. There are two ways to stop someone from stealing your meds: 1. Hide them. Commercial safes are easily defeated by someone who had done their research, especially if they have time to work on the safe. Hiding them, preferably somewhere other than where you reside, is by far the best method of preventing theft. If they can't find them, they can't steal them; 2. Video evidence. Buy a hidden camera and point it at your pill stash. It's hard to deny a video showing blatant theft. Flaws: a. If they steal your pills and ingest them, you've only accomplished catching the culprit but are still down important medication that cannot be replaced; b. If whoever is stealing them puts a mask on, commence aforementioned vehement denial of theft.

I take a daily dose of SSRIs and ACE inhibitors and in both cases as soon as it became a "routine" thing I start forgetting whether I took my pills today since... yeah, I remember taking pills recently, but that could've been yesterday as well. I've even had days where I was already on my way to work and had a moment of "wait... did I brush my teeth today?". I'm 29 and my memory is absolute shit.

for people that don't take medication everyday, this really is helpful. I'm a type 1 diabetic in my 30s and my insulin pen tells me when I last took a shot. I've been doing it for so long that is just second nature and I don't even think about the fact that I'm doing it. some time might pass after a meal and it'll hit me that I can't remember if I took a shot for it or not so I have to check. it could be dangerous if I took it again and I would feel like shit among other things if I don't take it at all.

My point is that this is one of those charges that was created to tack on to people who were obviously storing controlled substances with other illegal intentions.

If someone in your life has trouble remembering to take their medication, don't rule out these dosage bags just because there is a 0.000001% chance that they might be arrested by some rogue cop. I think the risk/reward is pretty obvious here.

I have one of these! I take meds at the same time every day, this thing is super helpful, cuz after doing something at the same time every day for years, it starts to feel like "wait did I take my meds tonight or am I thinking of yesterday"

I got these when I realized I sometimes couldn't remember if I'd already taken my blood pressure pill.

They sell them at my Rite Aid pharmacy (different brand but same thing).

The idea is really simple, it's just an electronic timer that starts as soon as the cap goes on the pill bottle. When you remove the cap, power is disconnected and the display goes blank. It starts counting again from zero when you put the cap back on.

I didn't know they even existed, but they were on the same shelf as the weekly pill organizers I was looking at.

They only work with "push down and turn" style caps, some pharmacies instead have bottles with caps where you press down a tab on the side and unscrew the cap; it's not compatible with those.

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